Build Your Own Arduino RTOS — Book Support#

Support site for the (Japanese) book on building a preemptive real-time OS from scratch on the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi.

Note

The book is written in Japanese; this English version of the support site currently covers setup and per-chapter build instructions. Full translations are in progress.

Try It First#

Before any setup, you can run the finished pieces in your browser. No installation and no board needed.

🖥️ Run your own OS

Each chapter’s firmware runs on a virtual board in your browser. The LED matrix shows CPU usage as bars, and you can type top or kill 3 into the shell. (The page itself is in Japanese.)

../sim/index.html
🐾 Walk the quadruped

Walk the chapter-13 robot in a physics simulation, with the same neural network that is written to the real board.

../assembly/quadruped/walk/index.html?lang=en

To start reading from whatever caught your interest, see Start from what you are curious about.

Contents#

🚀 Getting Started

What you need and how to set up Arduino IDE / PlatformIO.

Getting Started
💻 Running Without the Board

Run the same firmware on your PC when you do not have the board.

Appendix: Running Without the Board
📖 Chapter Support

Sample code locations, build commands, common pitfalls.

Chapter Support
🤖 Quadruped Assembly

Hardware for the chapter-13 quadruped robot.

Quadruped Assembly
❓ FAQ / Errata

Troubleshooting and corrections.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

About the Book#

つくりながら学ぶ!リアルタイムOS自作入門 (Japanese edition), by Iori Yanokura, published by Mynavi Publishing on September 18, 2026. ISBN 978-4-8399-9187-6. Available in print and as a PDF.

Free sample (Japanese):

Read sample pages (Mynavi Publishing)

Print:

Amazon.co.jp Rakuten Books Mynavi Books

Also available by ISBN (978-4-8399-9187-6) at Japanese bookstores.

PDF / ebook:

Mynavi Books (PDF) Kindle honto

The Mynavi Books PDF is DRM-watermarked with the buyer’s information and is downloaded from your account page after purchase.